Package org.apache.commons.lang.time

Provides classes and methods to work with dates and durations.

See: Description

Class Summary

Class	Description
DateFormatUtils	Date and time formatting utilities and constants.
DateUtils	A suite of utilities surrounding the use of the Calendar and Date object.
DurationFormatUtils	Duration formatting utilities and constants.
FastDateFormat	FastDateFormat is a fast and thread-safe version of SimpleDateFormat.
StopWatch	StopWatch provides a convenient API for timings.

Package org.apache.commons.lang.time Description

Provides classes and methods to work with dates and durations.

This includes:

• DateUtils - a set of static utility methods for working with dates
• FastDateFormat - a replacement for SimpleDateFormat that is fast and thread-safe
• DateFormatUtils - a formatting class for dates
• StopWatch - a duration timer

Since:

2.0

These classes are immutable (and therefore thread-safe) apart from StopWatch.